slatey
Britishadjective
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In the all but abandoned Revel corporate offices, overlooking a slatey winter sea, two of the remaining Revel employees were waiting for Straub to arrive.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2015
Something in her magnetism causes the stones to look dead and slatey.
From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter
Never pausing, turning only to shoot at wild random, the outlaws had tumbled—stumbled—slid down the slatey slope for the lake.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The slatey rocks had ceased, and these mountains seemed to consist of a sandstone conglomerate, which was in some places a mere mass of pebbles cemented together.
From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace
Billy Louise laughed a little, leaned, and grabbed a handful of slatey mane.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower
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